Bronchiectasis and progressive respiratory failure following smoke inhalation

Chest. 1989 Jun;95(6):1349-50. doi: 10.1378/chest.95.6.1349.

Abstract

A 49-year-old man who sustained inhalational injury in a fire 23 years ago developed bronchiectasis 12 years later and hypercapnic respiratory failure with cor pulmonale 20 years following the injury. Delayed onset of chronic respiratory failure should be considered among the long-term complications of inhalational injury.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bronchiectasis / complications
  • Bronchiectasis / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Oxygen / therapeutic use
  • Pulmonary Heart Disease / complications
  • Pulmonary Heart Disease / etiology*
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / complications
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / drug therapy
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology*
  • Smoke Inhalation Injury / complications*
  • Time Factors
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Oxygen